It is the first modern specialized dinosaur museum in China to be set up on the "Da Shanpu dinosaur fossils group site", which is called the "Dinosaur Cemetery". At present, it is the largest and the only dinosaur museum in Asia located at an actual fossil burial site.
It covers an area of 66,000 square meters and is built on the renowned "Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Coenosis Relics". The fossils and specimens cover the types of known dinosaur existing at the Jurassic Period, 205 million to 135 million years ago. It is the museum which collects and displays the most dinosaur fossil of the Jurrasic Period.
There are mainly three parts.
1.In the first part, what is introduced is the basic knowledge about dinosaur, such as organic evolution, fossil, geologic era, the evolution and classification of dinosaur and so on.
2.In the second part, various types of dinosaur fossils are displayed.
3.In the third part, the bury relics of dinosaur are exhibited, showing the unearthing site of a big area.
Opening Time
08 30 17 30
Location
It is in the northeast of Zigong City, nine kilometers away from city center.
(Zigong City is about 200 km both from Chengdu and Chongqing Cities, and 67 km from Yibin Airport.)